Both Uses
contagion
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John Adams, by McCullough
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- Adams would call slavery a "foul contagion in the human character."†
Subsection 1.3.1 *
- The story of the latter is a natural and almost unavoidable consequence of that foul contagion in the human character, Negro slavery.†
Subsection 3.11.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(contagion) the spread of disease or any idea or attitude -- especially one that is harmful; or an instance of the thing that is spread -- such as a virus
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)